Jason Bitner's new collection of found portrait photographs from the Midwest's Frank Pease. LaPorte, Indiana is a major cultural excavation and an opening into these lives, into this town, and into the heart of our nation.

Jason Bitner, the cocreator of FOUND Magazine and an expert in "show and tell" cultural artifacts, carefully sifted through these mementoes of the universal human journey - the christenings, communions, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, and retirements - to produce a portrait of the small town "everyman." Collectively, the book feels like a tactile Winesburg, Ohio, yet each print reverberates with undeniable individuality. These people could be our relatives, triggering emotions in us both affectionate and protective